Jon,
 
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> I don't know if this assures you; I hope it does.  I'd be interested
> in feedback, especially from those who have experience with the
> quality of releases other than MPE/iX releases.
 
In these days of Microsoft shipping millions of copies of software with all
manner of "unresolved issues" I fail to see how QA at HP can be criticised
overly - as you rightly say, for every release there will be a problem with a
"gotcha" somewhere! - and has anyone played any recent PC CD ROM game releases,
these companies have redefined QA to be Quite Appalling.
 
More seriously in recent years I have read of Digital customers with
incompatible versions of Pathworks, Unix upgrades that don't etc. Surely most of
this (in the case of the reputable end of the business) is just a function of
the increasing complexity of software. To use an analogy - a good diver will
always swallow dive well, ask them to perform ever more intricate combinations
and they're going to make mistakes more often.
 
Apart from one or two small issues with early MPE/XL releases with system calls
being renamed, I have to commend HP on the small number of bugs around .... and
even more importantly the way they sort them out PDQ.
 
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